1 Specifying GPIO information for devices
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7 Nodes that makes use of GPIOs should specify them using one or more
8 properties, each containing a 'gpio-list':
10 gpio-list ::= <single-gpio> [gpio-list]
11 single-gpio ::= <gpio-phandle> <gpio-specifier>
12 gpio-phandle : phandle to gpio controller node
13 gpio-specifier : Array of #gpio-cells specifying specific gpio
16 GPIO properties should be named "[<name>-]gpios". Exact
17 meaning of each gpios property must be documented in the device tree
18 binding for each device.
20 For example, the following could be used to describe gpios pins to use
21 as chip select lines; with chip selects 0, 1 and 3 populated, and chip
33 chipsel-gpios = <&gpio1 12 0>,
35 <0>, /* holes are permitted, means no GPIO 2 */
38 Note that gpio-specifier length is controller dependent. In the
39 above example, &gpio1 uses 2 cells to specify a gpio, while &gpio2
42 gpio-specifier may encode: bank, pin position inside the bank,
43 whether pin is open-drain and whether pin is logically inverted.
44 Exact meaning of each specifier cell is controller specific, and must
45 be documented in the device tree binding for the device.
47 Example of the node using GPIOs:
50 gpios = <&qe_pio_e 18 0>;
53 In this example gpio-specifier is "18 0" and encodes GPIO pin number,
54 and empty GPIO flags as accepted by the "qe_pio_e" gpio-controller.
56 2) gpio-controller nodes
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59 Every GPIO controller node must both an empty "gpio-controller"
60 property, and have #gpio-cells contain the size of the gpio-specifier.
62 Example of two SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes:
64 qe_pio_a: gpio-controller@1400 {
66 compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-a", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
71 qe_pio_e: gpio-controller@1460 {
73 compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
78 2.1) gpio- and pin-controller interaction
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81 Some or all of the GPIOs provided by a GPIO controller may be routed to pins
82 on the package via a pin controller. This allows muxing those pins between
83 GPIO and other functions.
85 It is useful to represent which GPIOs correspond to which pins on which pin
86 controllers. The gpio-ranges property described below represents this, and
87 contains information structures as follows:
89 gpio-range-list ::= <single-gpio-range> [gpio-range-list]
90 single-gpio-range ::= <numeric-gpio-range> | <named-gpio-range>
91 numeric-gpio-range ::=
92 <pinctrl-phandle> <gpio-base> <pinctrl-base> <count>
93 named-gpio-range ::= <pinctrl-phandle> <gpio-base> '<0 0>'
94 gpio-phandle : phandle to pin controller node.
95 gpio-base : Base GPIO ID in the GPIO controller
96 pinctrl-base : Base pinctrl pin ID in the pin controller
97 count : The number of GPIOs/pins in this range
99 The "pin controller node" mentioned above must conform to the bindings
100 described in ../pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt.
102 In case named gpio ranges are used (ranges with both <pinctrl-base> and
103 <count> set to 0), the property gpio-ranges-group-names contains one string
104 for every single-gpio-range in gpio-ranges:
105 gpiorange-names-list ::= <gpiorange-name> [gpiorange-names-list]
106 gpiorange-name : Name of the pingroup associated to the GPIO range in
107 the respective pin controller.
109 Elements of gpiorange-names-list corresponding to numeric ranges contain
110 the empty string. Elements of gpiorange-names-list corresponding to named
111 ranges contain the name of a pin group defined in the respective pin
112 controller. The number of pins/GPIOs in the range is the number of pins in
115 Previous versions of this binding required all pin controller nodes that
116 were referenced by any gpio-ranges property to contain a property named
117 #gpio-range-cells with value <3>. This requirement is now deprecated.
118 However, that property may still exist in older device trees for
119 compatibility reasons, and would still be required even in new device
120 trees that need to be compatible with older software.
124 qe_pio_e: gpio-controller@1460 {
126 compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
129 gpio-ranges = <&pinctrl1 0 20 10>, <&pinctrl2 10 50 20>;
132 Here, a single GPIO controller has GPIOs 0..9 routed to pin controller
133 pinctrl1's pins 20..29, and GPIOs 10..19 routed to pin controller pinctrl2's
138 gpio_pio_i: gpio-controller@14B0 {
140 compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
143 gpio-ranges = <&pinctrl1 0 20 10>,
147 gpio-ranges-group-names = "",
153 Here, three GPIO ranges are defined wrt. two pin controllers. pinctrl1 GPIO
154 ranges are defined using pin numbers whereas the GPIO ranges wrt. pinctrl2
155 are named "foo" and "bar".